It was nearly a decade ago when many across America started reporting terrifying appearances of creepy clowns including Missouri. What many don't realize, though, is that the phenomenon was born in Missouri more than 45 years ago. Shortly after that, odd clown reports happened in Rolla and a few weeks later in Springfield, Missouri. By early October, the scary clown appearances were happening in Kansas City, too. It was one of the first cases where there was truly a threatening criminal element to scary clown sightings and it was born in Missouri more than 4 decades ago.